Provinces and neighbouring country borders of South Africa - polygons

sa_prov

Institute for Water Quality Studies metadata.
Summary created by Elna with catalog.aml on 1999-04-01 - 14:56:20
File owner: elise, last modified: 1 Apr (less than 1yr ago)
Map extent:
-1432172W.1384198E
-1551264S---1551264S
-3934894S...-3934894S
-1432172W.1384198E

Projection information (see end of this page for details)
Projection ALBERS latitude of projection's origin 0 0 0.000
Units METERS Spheroid CLARKE1880

Scale
50000?
Date
1996?
Description
Provinces and neighbouring country borders of South Africa - polygons
Owner
Chief Directorate of Surveys and Land Information
Owner_address
Department of Land Affairs
Private Bag
MOWBRAY
7705
Owner_contact
Thomas Krieg
Owner_country
South Africa
Owner_phone
(021) 685 4070 x 143
Owner_fax
(021) 689 1351
Owner_email
xxx@xxx.xxx.gov.za
Disclaimer

Copyright_message
State Copyright
Copyright_warning
State data - not in the public domain
Copies of digital data may not be given to third parties
History 


Digital data supplied by Department of Water and Sanitation head office

1996 Michael Silberbauer, IWQS added field TYPE:

I - international border          (/hri/db/symbol/standard.lin symbol number 713)

i - international border on river (/hri/db/symbol/standard.lin symbol number 723)

C - coastline

P - provincial border             (/hri/db/symbol/standard.lin symbol number 743)

  Logo
$WMSYS/ptool/template/s_li_logo

Arc items, 5kbyte:
9 Oct 1997, elise:
8 data fields
ITEMEXAMPLESWIDTHTYPEREDEFINED?INDEXED?
FNODE#184.0 binary
TNODE#304.0 binary
LPOLY#64.0 binary
RPOLY#24.0 binary
LENGTH511492.218754.3 floatpnt
SA_PROV#14.0 binary
SA_PROV-ID744.0 binary
TYPEP1 character

Polygon items, 5kbyte:
9 Oct 1997, elise:
8 data fields
ITEMEXAMPLESWIDTHTYPEREDEFINED?INDEXED?
AREA169891358724.3 floatpnt
PERIMETER109153864.3 floatpnt
SA_PROV#14.0 binary
SA_PROV-ID44.0 binary
NAMEGAUTENG40 character
CLASSProvince40 character
Z04.0 binary
PROVINCEGauteng40 character

Map specifications: 
  Description of SINGLE precision coverage /spek/waterm/wmdata/general/sa_prov

                                FEATURE CLASSES

                                    Number of  Attribute     Spatial
Feature Class          Subclass     Features   data (bytes)  Index?   Topology?
-------------          --------     ---------  ------------  -------  ---------
ARCS                                      175        30      Yes
POLYGONS                                   35       140      Yes      Yes
NODES                                     161

                               SECONDARY FEATURES

Tics                                        4
Arc Segments                            52347
Polygon Labels                             34

                                   TOLERANCES

Fuzzy   =               211.937 V          Dangle  =                 0.000 N

                               COVERAGE BOUNDARY

Xmin =             -1304155.375            Xmax =              1256181.375
Ymin =             -3806877.500            Ymax =             -1679280.375

                                     STATUS

The coverage has not been Edited since the last BUILD or CLEAN.

                          COORDINATE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

Projection               ALBERS
Units                    METERS             Spheroid             CLARKE1880
Parameters:
1st standard parallel                                  -18  0  0.000
2nd standard parallel                                  -32  0  0.000
central meridian                                        24  0  0.000
latitude of projection's origin                          0  0  0.000
false easting (meters)                                       0.00000
false northing (meters)                                      0.00000